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Happy New Year!

Dennis Johnson Design brings you design news you can use... and some fun tidbits for imaginative playfulness. 2011 is the year "everything old is new again". Newstalgia??? What do we mean? Here are some examples for you to consider:

• Pantone color system predicts pepto-bismol pink (now called "honeysuckle") will be the #1 color of the year! Pantone calls it "modernized nostalgia".
• Handlebar mustaches (on men) will regain popularity–given power from the whole steam-punk genre? What do you think?
• Nerd glasses are being rocked and will continue to look cool after yule...
• The LA Times offers the idea that 4-D will go mainstream in 2011, citing Ralph Lauren's (November, 2010) outdoor video, sound, fragrance extravaganza promoting new products.
• Color will explode Pantone declares! India influences us with more than Bollywood. We are weary of neutrality? Ban the beige? 

Let us know what you think. We will be back with more morsels of design in February.